We are a well-established online publisher with over 20 years of experience in the automotive, tax, emissions and finance data industry. As we continue to grow and evolve, we are seeking a talented and innovative Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to lead our transition into a fully JavaScript-based ecosystem and to implement a Jamstack architecture.
We have some of the best automotive datasets and web-tools for the UK fleet market and are looking to expand into other areas. The move to electric cars, planning for Net Zero and changes to how cars are sold have all created strong opportunities for existing and future products.
About the role
- Assessing, testing and prototyping new technologies to ensure we are making the most of the latest available tools, from front end frameworks to cloud servers and databases
- Managing our infrastructure and executing DevOps strategy, ensuring the appropriate tooling is in place to support fast secure CI/CD
- Lead technical decisions in infrastructure and best practices
- Oversee the modernisation and migration of existing server side code into Node.js and Typescript
- Using proven experience as a full stack developer to debug and optimise existing code, as the existing systems need to remain strong while migrations take place
- Expand use of serverless technology to improve web application performance
- Reporting to the Director with a clear development roadmap
What you will need
- Proven experience working as a full stack developer, with a focus on back end coding
- Experience mentoring and teaching, you'll be helping debug and optimise the code
- Energy and the ambition to provide a fast safe stack that stays up to date
- An aptitude for working in a lean environment with small teams
- Experience of setting up cloud services management
Benefits
- Salary £65,000 to £85,000 dependent on experience
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Salary sacrifice scheme for car or cycle
- Flexible working hours
- Dog friendly office and courtyard
- Expected to be in the Bristol office a few days per week during the first 6 months. Ideally all employees are close enough to get together and enjoy a BBQ in the garden.
Our company was founded in 2002 with the aim of revolutionising the way company car drivers identify the lowest taxed and least polluting vehicles. Since then, we have steadily expanded our reach and now build our own unrestricted datasets, providing automotive web-tools to a wide range of car manufacturers, dealers, and financiers, including big names like Ford, Kia, MG, and Mercedes. As the dataset expands into cycles, large vehicles, new mobility models and full EV charging infrastructure, now is a great time to join the team and be part of the development of new tools and systems to help consumers make smart decisions. We are lucky in being able to lead with our own ideas and websites, though much of the detailed development of the core platforms will often be funded by client input.